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When it first released I was very impressed with the graphics and it felt much more like what I wanted a next gen game to look like. Got to say I strongly disagree with Pinky’s comment this morning of Bloodborne looking like a PlayStation 3 game for much of the time. We suspect they will too, as the novelty is clearly far more appealing than just buying individual games digitally.

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All the Nintendo Classic Mini consoles have the superior US/Japanese versions of the games, plus titles that were never originally released in Europe, and we’d expect it to be the same if Sony ever did something similar. GC: The PS one was just a slim model of the original console, it didn’t have any built-in games.

That is what will sell them not prettified older hardware. The important thing is that these games need to be made available and in a form that displays well on modern screens. It surely has to be cheaper and, possibly, easier to do this than manufacture a new console that is not actually needed to be able to play these games. It is ironic that the PS1 tribute video here includes FMV from the less well-regarded Parasite Eve 2 which was released in a PAL version. Panzer Front Bis, Einhänder, Final Fantasy Tactics, a slew of NTSC-only role-playing games like Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger, as well as the survival horror game Parasite Eve all good examples. There are also the very good, well-reviewed games not released in certain regions for various reasons.

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Those poor conversions, if given a full make over, would be welcome and could sell well. PAL versions of some games like Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere were mercilessly stripped of content too. Particularly in what were PAL regions of the world, like the UK, the game versions we received were often notoriously poor, unoptimised 50Hz conversions with lower frame rate and borders. Rather than waste time jumping on the retro ‘mini’ console bandwagon Sony should revive interest in the huge library of still very playable PS games by other means. The PlayStation 2, 3, and more recently the PlayStation 4 all support PS games, although in the latter case only a select few via PSN. It wasn’t just a superficial redesign either it was much smaller (external power brick), more attractive and it might have been forgotten that it also had an optional 5″ LCD screen attachment although it was still all mains powered, not portable. Maybe someone here has already mentioned that. I thought that they already had done that – it was called the PS one. I’ve, belatedly, just read about Sony possibly producing a Classic Mini PlayStation 1. GC: It all seems to suggest a disappointing lack of responsibility to us, but as you say they’re inviting punishment if things go badly.

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Steam has been in need of better parental controls and age verification for some time. I really, REALLY hope these new tools they hinted at are good and also long overdue. I worry now that a game will come along and cause government intervention. Politicians have loved to blame various forms of media for societal issues – books, music, films and now games – rather than tackle the harder reasons *cough* America, guns. I do admittedly kinda like the new policy, but I’m wary of it being a double-edged sword. I see it as them now wanting to wash their hands of curating the store. Now we have this new blog post which seems to make it even lazier for them. One of the games was removed in March by a troll report and Valve never explained the reason even to them. This was seemingly due to a very conservative religious group in the US bombarding Steam with reports, which represents another problem with how intense reporting like that can have an extremely negative effect on small and indie developers. Steam’s new policy is interesting, Whilst Active Shooter is the headliner for this, and the bigger news case, there was something that happened about a week before where Valve issued threats to visual novel publishers, some of which had worked with Steam to make sure content was safe, where their games would be removed if they were not altered.